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What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"? I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear anaphora personification onomatopoeia alliteration antithesis
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What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear

anaphora
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
antithesis

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Personification, America is an object, not a person, yet it is singing, which is a person like quality.
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